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This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.29.2026

Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

Human Genetic Modification

Demographic Fears and Far-Right Fantasies

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.26.2026

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Society

She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled

By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics

By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

U.S. States
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Services Sold to Boost I.V.F. Odds Backed by Little Evidence, Study Finds

By Maggie Astor, The New York Times | 06.23.2026

Every year, patients undergo millions of in vitro fertilization procedures worldwide. Only a minority result in a live birth.

In...

Animal Biotechnologies
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With Genetic Testing, How Much Information Is Too Much?

By Daniela J. Lamas, The New York Times | 06.22.2026

In the first hours after my daughter was born, three years ago now, I searched her for answers. I examined...

Genomics
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'If we were a straight couple...': Understanding LGBTQ+ family-building experiences in the UK

By Jennifer Takhar, Carolyn Wilson-Nash, and Chloe He, BioNews | 06.22.2026

Imagine wanting to have a child and discovering, at every stage, that the system was not designed with you in...

Other Countries
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HHS Pushes Fetal Personhood in New Grant Guidelines

By Anna Rogers, Mother Jones | 06.19.2026

“Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona” by...

Policies
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New NIH security rules for genomic data sets are slowing research, prompting workarounds

By Georgia Michelman, Science | 06.18.2026

In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Louisville (UofL), was starting a...

Policies
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Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

By Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine | 06.18.2026

Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of...

Genetic Selection
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Good Lives

By Jan Grue, Boston Review | 06.17.2026

REVIEWED:

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century
Dagmar Herzog
Princeton University Press, 2024

The Life Worth...

Bioethics
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These ‘master’ proteins protect us from deadly mutations — and could inspire new drugs

By Philip Ball , Nature | 06.17.2026

Our genomes are full of mutations that have the potential to damage our health or even kill us. Yet most...

Human Genetic Modification